{"id":42602,"date":"2026-05-27T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/?page_id=42602"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:33:13","slug":"sonja","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/sonja\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sonja Schneider-Waterberg: How strategic leadership on the ground secures sustainable prospects for Namibia's children. <\/strong><\/p>

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Change needs structure, but above all consistency. For 20 years, Sonja Schneider-Waterberg has been committed to Namibia and today, as National Coordinator, bears overall responsibility for the success of our projects. Her goal is to strengthen and empower the teams on the ground so that genuine independence can emerge. With strategic foresight and deep local roots, she ensures that donations go exactly where they have the greatest impact \u2013 for a future on its own feet.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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This video shows Sonja during one of her regular visits to Gobabis, engaging playfully with the children. For Sonja, this direct contact is an important part of ensuring the quality of our work every day.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The nutrition campaign:
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Help in a targeted way with your donation where it is needed most urgently.<\/strong><\/p>

As National Coordinator, Sonja knows exactly: education is not possible without the right nutritional foundation. That is why she tirelessly champions the expansion of our soup kitchens, the upkeep of the vegetable garden and accompanying hygiene measures. Under her leadership, we coordinate the daily, healthy provision of well over 2,000 children at all our locations.<\/p>

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With your donation, you directly support Sonja's work on site and help us maintain these vital and reliable structures without interruption, even in times of crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In Namibia for 20 years now<\/h4>

In this 2024 blog article, you can read an interview with our National Coordinator Sonja Schneider-Waterberg. She talks about the early days of the foundation in Okakarara, emigrating to Namibia and various milestones in the work on the ground.<\/p><\/div>

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F\u00fchrung mit Herz, Verstand und 20 Jahren Erfahrung Sonja Schneider-Waterberg: Wie strategische Leitung vor Ort nachhaltige Perspektiven f\u00fcr Namibias Kinder sichert. \u00a0 Ver\u00e4nderung braucht Struktur, aber vor allem Best\u00e4ndigkeit. Seit 20 Jahren engagiert sich Sonja Schneider-Waterberg in Namibia und tr\u00e4gt heute als Nationale Koordinatorin die Gesamtverantwortung f\u00fcr den Erfolg unserer Projekte. Ihr Ziel ist es, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42602"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42757,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42602\/revisions\/42757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}